Character & Leadership

Developing important life and leadership skills

Character and leadership skills are developed as students work their way through fourteen group studies (GSNC) and seven customized individual learning units (PACE). During this time students participate in about 3-4 hours of classroom study every day.

Group Studies for New Christians (GSNC)

Group Studies for New Christians is composed of 14 learning units. Each unit takes about 3 weeks to complete.

Attitudes

Temptation

Growing Through Failure

Christian Practices

Anger and Personal Rights

Love and Accepting Myself

Personal Relationships with Others

Personal Accelerated Christian Education (PACE)

Students must also complete a customized individual program called 'PACE'. Guided by his teacher/counsellor, the student decides which units would best benefit him and signs an accountability contract promising to complete the units.

Orientation

Self-image and Identity

Spiritual growth

Relationships

Leadership

Future plans and next steps

In addition to classroom study, students develop character and leadership skills by giving back to the community through volunteering at the West End Food Bank once a week. Four or six students sort canned goods, bag groceries and tidy the facility 4 hours/week. Also, students are occasionally asked to help people in the community to pack and move house.

Students also learn about leadership and build character when they are invited to share a meal in the homes of volunteer families. This project helps to demonstrate for the students what a stable family looks like so that when the students return to their own families they will be better equipped to lead. Host families are encouraged to hear about the ways in which God is changing lives at Teen Challenge.

In July 2012, Teen Challenge Atlantic will begin a new pilot project with Camp Evangeline in Nova Scotia. Here students will develop character and leadership skills and learn hands-on work skills as they cook and serve 245 meals 3x /day for the month of July.